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What City of Toronto can do for safer streets after Bill 212: a thread 🧵
Bill 212 is shit. This isn't an attempt to sugarcoat it or to exude toxic positivity. But while it effectively bans removing car lanes for bike lanes and mandates removal of some bike lanes, there are still many things which City of Toronto can and should do to create safer streets.
1. Upgrade all existing bike lanes with quick-install physical separation to provide more safety and discourage illegal stopping/parking. These are already established routes that can easily be upgraded and need no new legal restrictions. Use mini jersey barriers (as seen on Richmond/Adelaide) where width allows, and pre-cast concrete curbs where there's less width.
In all places where a bike lane and car parking are side-by-side, move the parking to between bike lane and the active car lane to provide additional protection and reduce injuries due to dooring. Barriers will help prevent cars parking into the bike lane.
At intersections where larger vehicles might need to turn, use speed bumps to mark the bike lanes as far as possible into the intersection, as done for the left-turn calming pilot.
Also establish and enforce a standard to build all new bike lanes with physical separation.
Downthread, among others: tighter curb radii; bike lanes where car lanes are wide; support local businesses; build new neighbourhoods right
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#Toronto #TOpoli #BikeTO #Bill212
Bill 212 is shit. This isn't an attempt to sugarcoat it or to exude toxic positivity. But while it effectively bans removing car lanes for bike lanes and mandates removal of some bike lanes, there are still many things which City of Toronto can and should do to create safer streets.
1. Upgrade all existing bike lanes with quick-install physical separation to provide more safety and discourage illegal stopping/parking. These are already established routes that can easily be upgraded and need no new legal restrictions. Use mini jersey barriers (as seen on Richmond/Adelaide) where width allows, and pre-cast concrete curbs where there's less width.
In all places where a bike lane and car parking are side-by-side, move the parking to between bike lane and the active car lane to provide additional protection and reduce injuries due to dooring. Barriers will help prevent cars parking into the bike lane.
At intersections where larger vehicles might need to turn, use speed bumps to mark the bike lanes as far as possible into the intersection, as done for the left-turn calming pilot.
Also establish and enforce a standard to build all new bike lanes with physical separation.
Downthread, among others: tighter curb radii; bike lanes where car lanes are wide; support local businesses; build new neighbourhoods right
(Boosts OK
)#Toronto #TOpoli #BikeTO #Bill212